Company profile - Flossbach von Storch

Flossbach von Storch

It is more than just about the money

The freedom to shape your life based on your own desires.

Preserving wealth and making it grow

Flossbach von Storch stands for its multi-asset approach: preserving and growing assets by investing in various asset classes. Depending on your appetite for risk and your return expectations, we offer a suitable solution – for investors who invest in our mutual funds or for private clients with larger assets, and institutional investors who prefer individually-managed portfolios.

How it all started

Responsibility

Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. was established in 2012 as a stock corporation under Luxembourg law. It manages retail and institutional funds. However, fund management for the funds is performed by its parent company, Flossbach von Storch AG, Cologne.

Flossbach von Storch AG was established in 1998 by Dr Bert Flossbach and Kurt von Storch. Business commenced on 01 March 1999. The roots of the company are in the management of wealthly private individuals. Today our clients also include fund investors and institutional investors. It is important for us to be there for you – face-to-face.

Flossbach von Storch is one of the leading independent asset managers in Germany – and continues to be owner-operated by its founders and senior executives. More than 300 colleagues take care of assets worth more than 70 billion euros.

Independence

Achieving long-term success requires independence, both in thought and in action, which means forming your own opinion rather than blindly following the judgement of others. It's no coincidence that Flossbach von Storch is headquartered in Cologne, far away from Germany's financial centres. Sometimes maintaining a critical distance helps you avoid missing the forest for the trees.

This is precisely the critical attitude that we have adopted — and that our employees should adopt too. Ideas will only blossom if they are given space to grow and the means to be cultivated. Promoting and nurturing this open corporate culture is how we have built such a strong team in recent years.

2023

Flossbach von Storch is one of the leading independent asset managers in Europe, has more than 300 employees and manages more than EUR 70 billion in assets.

2021

Flossbach von Storch ONE provides direct, digital access to fund-based asset management.

2020

Flossbach von Storch has more than EUR 50 billion under management for the first time. More than 260 employees take care of client assets.

2018

After opening in Luxembourg in 2012, Flossbach von Storch now opens offices in Milan and Madrid.

2016

The assets under management from Flossbach von Storch AG rise above the EUR 25 billion mark for the first time.

2014

The Flossbach von Storch Research Institute is established as an independent think tank to deal with the major economic issues of the time, such as the long-term consequences of central bank policy. Prof Dr Thomas Mayer is the Founding Director and Head of the Institute

2012

Flossbach von Storch Invest S.A. is established as a stock corporation under Luxembourg law. As a subsidiary of the AG, it assumes administrative management of the mutual and special funds. The institutional asset management area was created in the company. Today, clients also include pension funds and insurance companies.

2010

The number of employees increases to 50 and the company occupies its new premises in the KölnTriangle building in the Deutz district.

2009

The first employee is hired for fund distribution. The mutual fund business becomes increasingly important for the company in subsequent years.

2008

Dirk von Velsen joins the Executive Board and begins working with the two co-founders to promote the growth of the company.

2007

Flossbach von Storch SICAV – Multiple Opportunities, affectionately referred to as “MOF” in the company, is launched. Flossbach von Storch – Multiple Opportunities II, which has the same portfolio, but unlike the SICAV variant is available throughout Europe, followed in 2013. Although the MOF was originally intended primarily for the co-founders and their families, it is now one of the company’s biggest mutual funds and, if one takes both variants together, one of the biggest funds in Europe.

2002

For the first time in the history of the still young company, Flossbach von Storch AG has more than EUR one billion in assets under management. The team now has 11 employees.

Gründung von Flossbach von Storch

1998

Dr. Bert Flossbach und Kurt von Storch gründen in Köln die Flossbach von Storch AG – zunächst als klassischen Vermögensverwalter für Privatkunden. Dabei ging es ihnen vor allem darum, das Geld ihrer Kunden genauso zu verwalten, wie sie es mit ihrem eigenen auch tun würden. Vier Mitarbeiter hat das Unternehmen zu Beginn.